Description of problem:
After installation of todays( 12 October) update of pango, all letters on my
gnome desktop are replaced by rectangles. Additionally firefox will not start at
all.Mozzilla gives in some menus also rectangles. Probably some more gtk2
applications suffer from this problem
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
last update of pango for FC5
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1.install pango update
2.reboot
3.
Actual results:
Expected results:
Additional info:

I am facing the closely simillar issue after this update, I have not yet
rebooted but I see fonts as rectangles for NetworkManager and Tomboy, Firefox is
so far working,
but as I have made an attachment of the file
"/etc/pango/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/pango.modules" from the recent update, I am
now downgrading.

Same for me as Kevin reports: root's umask is 0022. However, the pango.modules
file was set to 0600 after the pango update.
To troubleshoot, I logged into X as root, and the fonts appeared, not the
rectangles (this makes sense now, since root could read pango.modules). I
narrowed down the problem by logging into X as a non-privileged user and running
"metacity --replace" from an xterminal, and seeing what errors popped up. That
led me to su to root, save the pango.modules as pango.modules.old, and run
"pango-modules-32 > pango.modules". diff showed that the old and new files were
identical, so it had to be the permissions. The old file was 0600, new file was
0644. Logged out and back in, et voila, the fonts are back.

I used yumex to install.
The umask of root is 022
My own umask is 77.
I'm not sure which umask yumex is taking since I'm running it from my own
account. The first thing it does is ask for the root-password and than it runs
in priviledged mode.
Jouk

Same issue here. This is a x86_64 installation with both pango x86_64 and i386
installed (the latter for various 32 bit apps).
The funny thing is that /etc/pango/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/pango.modules got
the right permissions, while /etc/pango/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/pango.modules got
them wrong. My root umask is 022, I upgraded using pup. But even when upgrading
by hand (ie rpm -Fvh pango-1.2.4-3.i386.rpm, after having downgraded to the
previous version) I get the wrong permissions. I have two other machines (both
i386) where the upgrade was flawless.

This same update broke VMwareWorkstation. I get an error complaining about
permission denied opening /usr/lib/vmware/libconf/etc/pango/pangorc. The mode
is 600. Chmoding to 644 and VMwareWorkstation starts, then dies and restarts
working correctly. I can't find any more error messages. So I can't point to
something else that is broken.

(In reply to comment #17)
> This same update broke VMwareWorkstation. I get an error complaining about
> permission denied opening /usr/lib/vmware/libconf/etc/pango/pangorc. The mode
> is 600. Chmoding to 644 and VMwareWorkstation starts, then dies and restarts
> working correctly. I can't find any more error messages. So I can't point to
> something else that is broken.
I don't understand. Pango doesn't install
/usr/lib/vmware/libconf/etc/pango/pangorc.

Ok, maybe this is a file that is created when VMwareWorkstation is installed.
Every thing is usable now, I will wait until the next update of pango, then
delete VMwareWorkstation and see what happens. By the way I just noticed that
now Thunderbird has a not of its opening page that moz_diable_pango = 1. That
was never there before.